A dinner bell

I have lost my kids. In a good way. They have spent the past week in the cul de sac behind our house. Their friends live back their and thanks to a basketball court directly behind my back fence (grrr....) I can see them playing outside from the back of my house. We have only recently let Littlebit go back there and she has to go with her brother, but she loves it. And they get to play with their friends outside. There has been a lot of bike riding going on!

Usually they are out there until I call them in for dinner or because it is time to go somewhere. I usually have to stand on the steps of the patio and shout for them or climb up the ladder of the playhouse and yell. I am sure the 5 houses in the cul de sac and my neighbors love to hear my yell for my kiddos and Lovey has started venturing farther away with his friends. So now I have started to search for a dinner bell. I would love to hang one by my sliding glass door on the patio and ring it when I need my kids. I think it would sound better than me yelling their names multiple times a day and might save my sanity.

We had one at my grandparents house as a kid a big one on a post and a little one by the door. I don't know of anywhere local to find one and when searching online, I can't hear the sound. Maybe the Habitat ReStore or there is a antique shop nearby I am thinking of. Hmmm... Something new to research.